Ingo Dierking is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the School of Physics of the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. His interest of work lies in the physics of soft matter systems based on liquid crystalline materials, such as defect formation and annihilation, liquid crystalline nano- and micro-particle composites, and polymer modified liquid crystals. He is a member on the editorial board of several journals, the editor of Liquid Crystals Today, the chair of the British Liquid Crystal Society and the author of the book “Textures of Liquid Crystals”.